From puzzle champions and Olympic cyclists to former bullfight promoters and Everest climbers, meet the people who help make the Googleplex such a colorful place to work.

By Yi-Wyn Yen and Michal Lev-Ram

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Larry Brilliant

Executive Director, Google.org

The only Googler to have helped wipe out an infectious disease, Brilliant, 63, came early to both philanthropy and the Internet. He co-founded the WELL, a prototypic online
community, in 1985. He co-founded and chaired the Seva Foundation, which helped restore sight to more than 2 million people. And he was one of the leaders of the World Health
Organization's successful push to eradicate smallpox. Today he spends his days running Google.org, the search giant's philanthropic arm. But don't let the "dot org" fool you.
Brilliant, who oversees the approximately $2 billion that Google has committed to charity, runs the organization as a for-profit, investing in early detection and response
systems for epidemics, renewable energy and entrepreneurial approaches to helping the poor.